Jai Pal Singh

Who was Jai Pal Singh?

Padma Shri Dr. Jai Pal Singh was an Indian physician and educator. Singh obtained his bachelor’s medical degree in 1962 with a distinguished academic record from the third oldest medical college in India Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, India - the same institute from where his father graduated a generation ago. After completing his post-graduate qualification in Surgery in 1955, he worked for over 40 years in Delhi and its neighbouring regions. During his medical career spanning four decades, Dr Singh visited the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1968 at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street London; traveled to United States on a WHO Fellowship to study Accident and Emergency Services; was invited to the General Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1984; read scientific papers at the International Cancer Congress in Seattle US, 1982 and in 1983 at the Second European Cancer Congress at Amsterdam, Holland; and was invited to Islamabad in 1989 by the Society of Surgeons of Pakistan.

His last official position was as Director of what was then Rohtak Medical College & Hospital in Haryana and is now Pt. B. D.